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WikisForSpooks (permalink) (comment) 26 Dec 2006 %STARTSUMMARY%
- Games, scifi, fun
  - Working jetpack! (more like paragliding than the classic Speccy game, though)
    - More retro game walkthrus on Youtube: Skool Daze (yet more here)
    - A history of computer RPGs; Mark Hurst's list of free games
  - Video game workout links: exercise bike workstation; Tetris weightlifting
  - Rudy Rucker's Flurb zine; wasting the Prince of Darkness at Microsoft
  - Christmas: the time of year for pardoning witches and praying to hacker gods
    - and, thankfully, the endpoint of my scary Fall teaching load
  - One side-effect of teaching: I hunger for the soporific passivity of TV...
    - like Heroes, Monkey, Jacobus, Alchemists of Sound, Tetris doc
  - "Websites are games" -- like, duh.
    - Ergo, wiki. Recent converts include medical ethicists and spooks
- Biology
  - The inevitable end-of-year roundups...
    - Science: paleogenomics, speciation, memory, piwi-RNAs
    - Nature's 2006 gallery is amazing! (if you're a subscriber)
    - More "best of 2006" lists: Mac screensavers, Web OS's, applications
  - Informatics for biological discovery...
    - Metagenomics: gut flora & obesity, acid-lovin' archaea
    - Haussler, Miller, Blanchette et al on ancestral genome reconstruction
  - Informatics toolbuilding...
    - Noncoding elements conserved between human & shark
    - NIH launches 'database of Genotype and Phenotype'
    - Dragonfly: AJAX multiple alignment viewer
  - Cool computational modeling of biological systems...
    - Noise is gnarly: Deviant effects in molecular reaction pathways
    - Project Cybercell and the virtual membrane of discrete automata
- Bioengineering, synthetic biology, bodymods, etc.
  - Engineering yeast for biofuels (big in Berkeley: see here and here)
  - DNA logic circuits (no energy required, unlike prior work)
  - Magnetite in the human nose! (c.f. magnetic implant nutters)
- Science in the news
  - Lohachara == Atlantis. Try telling them that global warming's overhyped...
  - Documentary video on Temple Grandin (self-proclaimed autistic Dr Doolittle)
  - NASA's Victorian bushfire images; wearable fruitflies(?!); more on Martian aqua
    - actually, it hailed in Melbourne on Christmas Day, which was welcome to the fire-wary locals
    - though not (selfishly) to me... having come Down Under to escape the miserable Northern xmas... sigh
- Some links on information theory in biology and cryptanalysis
  - "Spikes": polemic review of neural computation via Bayes & info theory.
    - Here's more from them: a 1998 paper on neural encoding
  - WWI/2 crypto: German cryptanalysis, Ultra & the ETO, Navy crypto docs, more
  - Lastly... I think I finally understand Ito's Lemma... big woop! Here's a short & sweet derivation.

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Best site I see. Thanks. - TWikiGuest - 03 Feb 2007 10:31:36